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28 Feb

Alabama Program Focuses on the Digital Revolution and More

On Thursday, February 22, about a dozen booksellers attended an American Booksellers Association Booksellers Forum and Education Program at Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, Alabama. The event was held in conjunction with the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA).

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27 Feb

ABA/NEIBA Forum Program on March 27

The American Booksellers Association is inviting booksellers to a Booksellers Forum and Education Program to be held in conjunction with the New England Independent Booksellers Association in Amherst, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, March 27. The program will run from 1:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the National Yiddish Book Center on the grounds of Hampshire College.

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21 Feb

ABA Board Candidate Petition Deadline March 14

On Thursday, February 15, the American Booksellers Association announced the names of booksellers approved by the Board of Directors as candidates for the 2007 director elections. They are Steve Bercu of BookPeople in Austin, Texas; Tom Campbell of The Regulator Bookshop in Durham, North Carolina; and Cathy Langer of Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver. Langer is currently a member of the ABA Board and is eligible for an additional three-year term.

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21 Feb

ABA/GLBA Forum Program on March 20

The American Booksellers Association is inviting booksellers to a Booksellers Forum and Education Program to be held in conjunction with the Great Lakes Booksellers Association in Aurora, Illinois, on March 20. The program, hosted by ABA Board member Becky Anderson of Anderson's Bookshops, will run from 9:45 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at the Anderson's Book Fairs warehouse in Aurora.

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21 Feb

ABA Forum to Be Held at PNBA Spring Show

The American Booksellers Association's 2007 Winter/Spring Booksellers Forum tour will travel to Portland, Oregon, in March.

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14 Feb

A Report on the ABA Board's Winter Meeting

The American Booksellers Association Board of Directors, senior staff, and representatives from the regional booksellers associations held meetings from Saturday, February 3, to Monday, February 5, immediately following the Winter Institute at Oregon's Portland Doubletree at Lloyd's Center.

Among its activities during the three days of meetings, the Board:

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14 Feb

2007 ABA Board Candidates and Petition Guidelines

At its February meeting, the American Booksellers Association's Board of Directors approved the report of the ABA Nominating Committee, chaired by Collette Morgan of Wild Rumpus in Minneapolis. The Committee presented the Board with the names of three director candidates for three-year terms (2007 - 2010) on the Board.

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14 Feb

Booksellers Forum Tour Heads to Wisconsin on March 10

The American Booksellers Association is inviting booksellers to a forum and education program in Wisconsin on Saturday, March 10.

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08 Feb

The Winter Institute in Photos

For the hundreds of booksellers at the American Booksellers Association's Second Annual Winter Institute, which ran from February 1 - 2 in Portland, Oregon, the days were jam-packed with education, networking, and socializing. A daily overview tells one story (here and here, and a bookseller's firsthand account tells another.

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02 Feb

Live From Portland, Oregon -- ABA Winter Institute, Day 2

The second day of the 2007 ABA Winter Institute featured lots more education, peer networking, and even some breaking news about the importance of independent retailing to Main Street America.

The eight-hour-plus schedule included nine educational panels, a breakfast session where booksellers joined in the planning process for the next ABA strategic plan, more rep picks of upcoming adult and children's trade titles, and a "New Media Lunch," which looked at the pervasive effects of digitalization on the book world.

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31 Jan

ABA Booksellers Forum Season to Start in Alabama

The American Booksellers Association's 2007 Winter/Spring Booksellers Forum tour will start in the Southeast on Thursday, February 22. The forum, organized in conjunction with the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), will be held at Alabama Booksmith in Birmingham, Alabama.

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18 Jan

ABA's New Digital Task Force Has First Meeting

On Wednesday, January 10, ABA's new Digital Task Force (DTF) held its first meeting at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, in Brooklyn, New York.

The DTF is composed of 10 booksellers and industry professionals and five ABA staff members, and it is charged with looking at the myriad technical changes affecting the world of consumer book consumption, from the digitization of content to the burgeoning world of online social networking. The goal of the DTF will be to help advise ABA on devising strategies to address these issues.

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11 Jan

ABA Requests Meetings With U.S. Senate & House Small Business Committee Chairs

Following the Democratic Party's successes in the November mid-term elections, when it secured a majority in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, the majority party has assumed leadership positions for Congressional committees. For small business owners, two key committees -- the Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship and the House Small Business Committee -- have already begun to identify priorities for the 110th Congress, and committee members have introduced new legislation.

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03 Jan

IBF Announces New Bookstore Calendar for 2008

Due to the "warm welcome the book community gave to its 50th anniversary calendar," the International Booksellers Federation (IBF), a non-governmental organization of booksellers associations and booksellers from around the world, announced this week that the IBF calendar for 2008 is in preparation.

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About ABA

The American Booksellers Association, a national not-for-profit trade organization, works with booksellers and industry partners to ensure the success and profitability of independently owned book retailers, and to assist in expanding the community of the book.

Independent bookstores act as community anchors; they serve a unique role in promoting the open exchange of ideas, enriching the cultural life of communities, and creating economically vibrant neighborhoods.

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